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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease
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Nobody is in Charge. This is a good thing
We're a sac of fluid attached to some calcium. Our entire operating system is made of lard.
#nzpol This govt is a "festering cluster of corrupt, autocratic racists" Paul Enright
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I'm a plane nut
I watched astounded by the clip on 1News about a "Turkish AF C130" falling from the sky
Got distracted & came back to it this morning
This isn't a C130, it is the wing and engines twirling from the sky, the entire fore and aft fuselage are gone
There's been a midair catastrophe
Still pic from video showing smoke, or possibly fuel pouring from the wingtips of the wings of a Turkish Airforce C130 cargo plane falling from the sky The straight leading edge with engines and propellers attached rotating about it's centre of balance has the entire front fuselage sheared off at the leading edge of the wing, a small stub of aft fuselage protrudes from the trailing edge, all of the rest of the aft end is gone. The engines appear to be unharmed, but something appears to have blown out both wing tips, possibly releasing fuel from the wing tanks. The fact that there is no apparent fire argues for a catastrophic failure around the wing box This is a VERY weird event
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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This is what we started and where it had reached about 4 years ago
Nice to know it might be more useful than home for a few critters and a source of water for fire-fighting if needed
Pic of yellow digger at the lower end of a small serpentine swamp almost completely dried up in late summer It is surrounded by green slightly rolling pasture with rows of shelter trees in the background and a pine plantation on the hill beyond The digger has started excavating clay to make a dam and it's associated pond Pic taken a few years later from almost exactly the place where the digger stood. Fern and daisies in the foreground, a medium-sized pond with a scattering of water lilies over parts of the surface and on the far bank increasingly larger and more densely growing native trees with a view of an olive grove and more tree clumps on the hill behind
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Dee
Lishus
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Screen shot of text "Peters was asked why it was removed as he made his way into the House this afternoon. "Well, we don't use singular pronouns, we use collective pronouns, and I see the Prime Minister agrees with me," he replied. "The lesson was learned." Peters dismissed a follow up question about his position on using pronouns, given his refusal to use they-them pronouns for former Green MP Benjamin Doyle. "Oh, excuse me. Get serious."
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Nope
But you can have a pickcha
View of my cow Socks from the milking position
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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No need to imagine, I have 6kW panels & 14kWh battery & my last 7 days' grid dealings are below
However, that would have been impossible without my Homewood burning prunings for baking, water heating & the hob about every 4th day
Most of the soot is captured by the stove and no FF needed
Screenshot of solar PV results for 7 days showing 2.5kWh bought from the grid 55.3kWh sold to the grid Previous 7 days however, we needed rather more to recharge the car after several needed excursions, including 1 to Hamilton
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Also, leaders make themselves
And they start anywhere, with almost nothing
Most fail, survivorship bias is a thing
Pic of climate activist Greta Thunberg at her final School Strike for the Climate The placard leans against a grey wall, she sits beside it on some folded clothing, her arms wrapped around her bent legs, her face close to expressionless, mouth in an almost straight line
October 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Us: How are you going against the KPI's?
Them: Have YOU ever had to meet KPI's?
Us: Well..
Them: OUR KPI's are huge, and VERY complex, the numbers change depending on where precisely, with geometric logic, they are sampled, YOU could NEVER understand it, but the KPI's RULE!! Also, we win!!
Quote from the Caine Mutiny Captain Queeg: Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers...
October 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Timeline cleanse, leaning on the gate on the way to milk the cow this morning
October 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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After breakfast, my morning view
Pic of black and white Belted Galloway cow standing in a milking bail, viewed from behind, a rope across the back of her legs, waiting to be milked
October 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Pre-breakfast mental health check
Meds/Ablutions/foot care
Weather readings
Put away the hand-washed dishes from yesterday
Box up some small cheeses for the fridge
Take down the sour cream from the Sunday's butter
Scythe some "lawn" for the cows
Make breakfast
Good to go for another day
And this
Screen shot of solar power supply for the house at 8am Battery 59%, cells producing 0.4kW, just enough for the house and showing 95% of the power we use provided from the roof in the last 7 days TBF, all our hot water and most of the cooking is provided by the woodfired oven that ran for 5 hours twice in that time, using prunings from the trees.
October 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Paul Krugman OTOH, is both inside the beast, and rather more succinct about what he believes is going on
"the recent runup in gold prices is telling us something — namely, that the world is losing faith in America"
Swap "faith" for "trust" and we are there, also here
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Screen shot of text Now it’s hard to pin down exactly what investors fear, perhaps because they aren’t sure themselves. But many previously inconceivable possibilities are now quite conceivable given the Trump administration’s radicalism. Runaway inflation hidden by rigged official statistics? Expropriation of the reserves of governments Trump doesn’t like? Forced conversion of foreign assets into 100-year bonds? Given the administration’s record so far, how confident are you that none of these things could possibly happen? As I said at the top of this piece, I normally pay don’t pay much attention to gold, which doesn’t play an important role in the modern economy. But I believe that the recent runup in gold prices is telling us something — namely, that the world is losing faith in America. And perhaps Ken Griffin’s warnings are also telling us that even ultra-rich hedge fund titans are starting to worry about the monster they helped create. Screenshot of text Now it’s hard to pin down exactly what investors fear, perhaps because they aren’t sure themselves. But many previously inconceivable possibilities are now quite conceivable given the Trump administration’s radicalism. Runaway inflation hidden by rigged official statistics? Expropriation of the reserves of governments Trump doesn’t like? Forced conversion of foreign assets into 100-year bonds? Given the administration’s record so far, how confident are you that none of these things could possibly happen?
October 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Fair point, "plausible" doing a LOT of work

Sweden: "Give them food, water and clean accommodation immediately" ie, they don't have it now
Israel: Sweden is lying, we do everything by the book

Who do they imagine is their audience?
Text from Guardian Oct4 2025 The Swedish foreign ministry said its embassy officials had visited nine detained Swedes on Friday: “The Swedish embassy in Tel Aviv remains in contact with Israeli authorities to stress the importance of swift processing and the possibility of returning home to Sweden. Based on discussions with detained individuals, the importance of addressing individual medical needs was also emphasised. “Moreover, the embassy stressed that food and clean water must be provided immediately, and that all detainees must be given access to Israeli legal counsel, if desired.” The Israeli embassy said the allegations were “complete lies”. “All detainees from the Hamas-Sumud provocation were given access to water, food, and toilets; they were not denied access to legal counsel, and all their legal rights, including access to medical care, were fully upheld. “Israel is and will remain a state governed by the rule of law, committed to upholding the rights and dignity of all individuals in accordance with international standards,” it said.
October 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Nominative Determinant Watt: Got it Nicola, a POLICY
Willis: Shit hot, time to announce an announcement
The Universe: Oh fuck off
Photo from inside old, drafty, wooden barn with a door hanging off it's hinges
October 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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On May 1 2007, the previous owners installed a 15.5k/L tank behind their new barn
They put it on a 100mm pad of compacted sand per instructions but didn't add a restraining edge
For 16yrs it worked fine
But climate change has added a LOT more water to the soil
So this
Closeup of water tank "strengthening" rib cracking and beginning to leak Closeup of repair to the leak using a heavy duty patch and serious plastic weld $600 Lasted 5 months and I'll have to have a new pad made, with luck we will be able to move the tank rather than replace it.
September 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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They even have their own icon
Melania Trump seen from behind, getting into a vehicle, wearing a coat with text apparently painted on the back, "I really don't care, do U?"
September 23, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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If only they had warned us somehow
Melania Trump being assisted into a vehicle while wearing a coat with the text on the back saying, "I really don't care, do you?"
September 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Timeline skite

1062gm of fresh paneer, made from 6L of milk from Socks the house cow
Nothing new about that, happens maybe 3 times a fortnight

ah
engari

THIS one was made with our own cider vinegar
Be nice if it is flavoured with apple
Pic of pressed paneer cheese, still wrapped in cheesecloth, on wooden board with press form and follower in the background
September 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Timeline cleanse, this morning under a calm bluesky, quietly basking in the sun, Bella enjoying some calm, Tulip, her week-old calf has decided to keep company with Aunty Nutmeg, who is more than happy to have a little one to care for
September 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Find new calf on ground 😀, clean, dry, yellow poop
Introduce myself, get maternal OK
Milk cow
More time with calf who comes for scratches age 5hrs/12kg?
Return milk to house, prep to upload vide...

MAD SCRAMBLE TO FIND ERRANT CALF!!!!

Followed by 200m calf carry back to mum with added struggles
September 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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The quote tells you all you need to know about the story, "new power co's" are not hankering for competition, they want in on the trough

www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Text screen shot of RNZ story about electricity prices "The Electricity Authority recently begun some work to try to level the playing field for new electricity retailers, which have complained the market structure is an impediment to competition. Economist Geoff Bertram said it was "largely irrelevant window dressing". "The market structure was and still is deliberately designed to push prices up and keep them there."
August 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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I am also claiming a medal for refusing to make any of the appallingly inappropriate comments regarding members of the bovine persuasion
I will apologise to my actual cow in the miorning
Here SHE is
Rear view of my mostly Belted Galloway cow Socks standing in her milking bail
August 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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No mistake, it's expensive & keeping the Homewood going means permanent attention to pruning stacking & drying fuel, genuine work
But the results ARE worth it
These pics are from our PV monitor
We should be doing this stuff at scale and EVERY new development should have it mandated & subsidised
Graph of power consumption over 7 days Red units are sales to the grid, 12kWh, 67% increase but on trivial flows Black units are bought from the grid over the same period, 20kWh, but the 3 big days were charging the EV so replaced petrol costs for travel and still 61% down on the previous week when we recharged after a trip to Hamilton Graphic showing 3 pieces of information from the solar inverter that manages our PV/battery/grid interaction On the left a flow chart of current consumption, before breakfast, small PV, just enough to cover a few lights and the computer In the centre a battery state of charge showing 48% after providing all our power overnight, including lights, electric blanket, house water pump, lounge ceiling fan, warm air transfer pump and TV On the right, graphic showing % of electricity the PV has supplied over the last 7 days, 84% Taking out space heating, water heating and fan oven makes a huge difference to consumption
August 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Still, at least they can still play rugby eh?
2/2
Text screenshot The adjustment and streamlining of public agencies that President Javier Milei is driving in Argentina does not apply to the areas of security and defense. After restoring the State Intelligence Secretariat and assigning it millions of reserved funds —for which he does not have to account— the president has now created a special unit that will deal with cyberpatrolling on social media and the internet, the analysis of security cameras in real time and aerial surveillance using drones, among other things. In addition, he will use “machine learning algorithms” to “predict future crimes,” as the sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick once dreamed up, later made famous by the film Minority Report. How will Milei do all that? Through artificial intelligence, the executive announced.
August 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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blackberry and apple pie, missing from the pic, 24 muesli muffins and 5L of pumpkin soup
Total energy cost a Maccas fries box of small 20-40mm firewood, 4 larger pieces ~100mm and 18 months to get it dry
If the buggers are going to make us into peasants, we might as well get it right
2/2
Pic of 2 roasting dishes of Queensland Blue pumpkin pieces, roasted, another roasting dish full of roasted macadamias, a custard-topped blackberry and apple pie and an array of scroll bakes in the style of Danish pastries
August 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Hmm, spring I see, blackbirds first again
August 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM